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...itself been in favor of such a move but intended to effect it in an orderly manner. The Bolsheviks on the other hand advocated immediate seizure and the people were in such a frenzy that the quicker course was by far the more popular. The Reds thus had two trump cards, immediate peace and immediate seizure of land; the people did not support the Bolsheviks because they were such, but because of the two panaceas they offered...
...Having bid out of turn, a bidder is not penalized if he makes his bid sufficient before the error is noticed and before another bidder has bid. But the sufficient bid must be in the same suit (or in No Trump if that was the insufficient bid). If the error is noticed and called before being corrected, and before another bid has been made, the offender must make his bid sufficient and his partner is barred from the auction. But in this case, the insufficient bid may be made sufficient in any suit or in No Trump...
...Honor values: simple honors in all suits and No Trump-30; four honors divided, in all suits and No Trump-40; five suit honors divided 2 and 3-50; four suit honors in one hand-80; five suit honors divided 4 and 1-90; all honors in one hand-100. One or two honors held by a side are not counted. (Brand new, but in wide vogue before the new code was officially published...
...help one another stuff graphed. Well, Friday the lecturer posted a notice about the hour exam in it: I suppose to give us something to think about while he talked. And though I kept wondering all through the hour whether I should have taken Wyn out of his no trump on the fourth hand last night, the thought of that notice on the board greatly irritated me. But after a while I did get fairly well settled--that nice state between sleep and waking. The fellow on my right is a graduate student and is apparently going to publish when...
President Coolidge has made his position clear. He opposes any substantial increase in the American navy. In the face of claims that the British and Japanese are increasing their subsidiary ships, which were not limited by the Washington Conference, the President can still play his trump card, and call another conference to limit subsidiary building. Some say that Great Britain and Japan would welcome such a proposal. If naval rivalry is to end, this action must be taken eventually. Ordinary common sense dictates that it be done now, before more millions are sunk into ship to be scrapped...